Libel charges can lead to 2 years imprisonment A leading Taiwan CWI (International Socialist Forward) comrade, Hsu Wei-Yu, is being threatened with libel action by CTi, a large media corporation with links to the Chinese […]
What is behind the new found indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities?
Forced confessions and more disappearances as CCP regime persecutes worker and youth activists
The failure of Taiwan’s pro-LGBT referendum in November last year does not represent the end of the marriage equality and LGBT movement in Taiwan and we need to rebuild a fighting LGBT movement against further […]
Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout
A new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the victims are connected to a solidarity campaign for factory […]
On 27 October, 137,000 people marched in Taiwan’s capital in the 16th annual Taipei Pride demonstration. The number of participants broke the record in Taiwan, making the demo once again the biggest LGBT+ demonstration in […]
In the final week of August, the CCP (‘Communist’ Party) dictatorship launched a nationally coordinated crackdown against left youth activists and workers fighting for trade union rights in Shenzhen.
“Continue the struggle!” are the fighting words of Shen Mengyu in a letter smuggled out of her detention cell in Shenzhen, China. Readers will feel as if she is speaking directly to them and will […]
Introduction to the Commission on China at the CWI School 2018 by Pasha of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The world has moved closer to a trade war on multiple fronts as Trump’s administration rolls out its aggressive ‘America First’ trade policies, taking aim at both close US allies and major rivals.
Crane drivers in China’s construction industry have taken strike action in dozens of cities across the country. That the strikes are coordinated is a stunning achievement for these workers.
The news from Beijing is historic – nothing less than a political earthquake with repercussions around the world. At its upcoming “parliamentary session” (the National People’s Congress, NPC, which starts next week), China will remove the […]
The Chinese dictatorship’s massive infrastructure plan is the spearhead for its whole economic and geopolitical strategy. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has assumed increasing importance for the regime of China’s ‘strongman’ Xi Jinping.
The sweeping crackdown on dissent in China under Xi Jinping is well known. While most international media reports focus on repression against liberal dissidents it is not unusual for left activists also to be targeted. […]
A nine-minute video made by the New York Times may cost Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk fifteen years in prison. He is the latest victim in an unprecedented crackdown in which hundreds of dissidents […]
The word environment was mentioned 89 times by Xi Jinping in his report to the 19th Congress of the ruling “communist” party, even more than ‘economy’. He has sent out investigative teams from the central […]
The 19th Congress of the CCP, held in October, adopted the party leader’s doctrine of iron dictatorship. China’s “great power” status is enshrined in the party constitution but stable government is still by no means […]
Xinjiang is the vast Muslim-majority region in China’s far west where Turkic speaking Uighur Muslims are the largest ethnic group. Under Chinese rule it has been transformed into a 1.7 million square kilometre prison. Rich […]
Donald Trump’s cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase on 6 April, during a round of “beautiful chocolate cake” with China’s president Xi Jinping, marks a reckless and dangerous escalation of tensions in the Syrian […]
On 12 April 1927, a bloody military coup turned the tide on the Chinese Revolution
International Women’s Day: “Solidarity with global mass protests and women’s strikes”. Over 70 attended the Socialist Action (CWI) candle-lit demonstration in Hong Kong for International Women’s Day, 8 March. Protesters squeezed behind police barriers at Hong […]
Island risks being pawn in his game
Outbursts raise fears of confrontation
Xi Jinping becomes “core leader”
Model resolution
Protesters defy crackdown
A short history of the Olympics:
Only winner from tribunal’s ruling is arms industry
Has China’s economy turned a corner?
Education ministry retreats over increased tuition fees
Territorial disputes resemble pieces on a ‘geopolitical chessboard’ as the US and China struggle for hegemony in Asia
Video by CWI comrades in China and Hong Kong
Massive clampdown by state censors
Discussion on what is happening in China
Thousands march in Heilongjiang province opposing job cuts.
Year of the Monkey opens with economy in worst situation for decades
“China is entering a dark night of repression and detentions under Xi Jinping”
Determined battle for pension rights and an end to contract labour
Corruption, poor oversight and chase for profits, maim thousands
Arrests in Guangdong province as workers’ struggles multiply
Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China
More than $5 trillion wiped off global stock markets in two weeks since Chinese devaluation
Sudden reversal of Beijing’s exchange rate policy underlines seriousness of China’s economic woes
Regime adopts panic measures as market crash threatens wider economic recession
Billions wiped off share values in June – only the Greek stock market is more volatile
Secret trial of Zhou Yongkang
26th anniversary of the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989, is also a warning of revolutionary shocks ahead
Stock market frenzy and fabricated GDP figures cannot hide the reality of an economy in deep trouble
Five women activists released in rare climb down by Beijing regime
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